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Melissa: In addition to your other planes, you must absolutely get
Dreamfleet's A-36. Remember when you got the Archer how much you liked it?
With the A-36 you will love it. Sweetest GA plane you will ever fly. Bill
"Lawn Dart" <willkayakforfoodREMOVE_THIS@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Paul,
>
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:03:14 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Any help anyone can offer would be most appreciated.
>
> I'm a bit late getting to this thread, but I thought I'd add my two
> cents for starters...
>
> As the others have mentioned, there's a great deal of freeware
> available; some of it extremely good, and some of it is not so great.
> There is also a good deal of payware available; again, some great,
> and some not so great.
>
> I don't know if you have a particular preference for certain types of
> planes, certain places to fly, etc., but since I mostly enjoy flying
> small prop planes over mountainous coastal areas, here are just a few
> of my favorite "must have" add-ons:
>
> Terrain Mesh:
>
> Anything from FSGenesis - both freeware and payware:
>
> http://portal.fsgenesis.net/
>
> Anything from Holger Sandmann - both freeware and payware. Holger
> does something special with his mesh/scenery products; he will hand
> paint accurate scenery features that greatly enhance the areas
> covered. For an example of some of this latest payware work, see the
> "Misty Fjords" scenery Here:
>
> http://www.fsaddon.com/
>
> His freeware work can be found at the avsim.com file library.
>
> Enhanced moon and stars:
>
> http://www.b314clipper.com/
>
> On that page, follow the "Support" and "Download" links, then scroll
> to the bottom of the page for "Real Stars" and "Real Moon".
>
> Generic runway/taxiway enhancements:
>
> aeu7.zip
> rlights.zip
>
> So far I only have one "Georender" scenery, and I really like it. It's
> the "Orcas Island" scenery from FSAddon, and it includes a nice
> enhanced KORS airport (small planes or helicopters only, as it's a
> pretty short runway).
>
> A few of my favorite payware planes:
>
> - From http://www.realairsimulations.com/ ...
>
> Super Decathlon
> SIAI Marchetti FS.260
>
> Soon I'll also be getting RealAir's Scout and Spitfire planes.
>
> - From http://www.flight1.com/ ...
>
> Piper Archer II
>
> If you get the Piper archer II, also get the freeware "Bandit Kit"
> from Peter McLeland here:
>
>
http://www.petermcleland.com/logbook_001.htm
>
> Click on the "links" button to go to the download page.
>
> With Peter's Bandit Kit, you can create a "souped up/aerobatic"
> version of the Archer II, but you must first have the payware Archer
> II from flight1/Dreamfleet in order to use the Bandit Kit.
>
> More flight1/Dreamfleet planes I have and recommend:
>
> Piper Meridian
> Cessna 152
> Cessna 177
> Cessna 421
>
> I'm thinking about getting the flight1 Cessna 172 as well. The only
> flight1 plane I have that I can't recommend without reservation is
> the Cessna 441, as I just don't feel they did quite as good a job on
> this plane as they have on the others.
>
> There's a lot more to mention, but if you're interested in flying
> small planes, the mesh, sceneries, and planes above should give you a
> good start.
>
> - --
> Melissa
>
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